Note: This was originally posted on my one-size-fits-none blog that covered technology and humor (among many other topics). If you get through the techno babble at the start without crossing your eyes or going to sleep, and you might just laugh by the end…or feel dumb if you don’t 
I was reading the specifications for a software program where the maximum value it would accept for a particular setting was 2147483647 seconds. Not a number I will remember on a certification exam. So I whipped out my handy calculator (startruncalc.exe) and figured this out to be just a shade over 68 years.
So, the setting could not get past 69, which reminded me of other technical limits this number is know for.
The speed limit of sex is 68, because at 69 you eat it.
The square root of 69 is eight something.
And now, the time a transaction can try to take is 68 years, after which it gets sucked back to where it started.
Ok, yeah, only the nerds are laughing at that last one, and only some of them. But, hey, that is how my head works in its humor division.
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